Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill With DeepMind-Powered AI – Bloomberg: “In recent months, the Alphabet Inc. unit put a DeepMind AI system in control of parts of its data centers to reduce power consumption by manipulating computer servers and related equipment like cooling systems. It uses a similar technique to DeepMind software that taught itself to play Atari video games, Hassabis said in an interview at a recent AI conference in New York. The system cut power usage in the data centers by several percentage points, ‘which is a huge saving in terms of cost but, also, great for the environment,’ he said.”

After the government crushed the student-led demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Mr. Wang disavowed his Communist Party membership. He also helped an underground operation to smuggle Tiananmen activists to then-British-ruled Hong Kong and was detained for nearly a year, according to a person familiar with the situation.